Tuesday, September 22, 2009

EFCA: Is card check still part of the bill?

The Orwellian-named Employee Free Choice Act, among other things would replace secret ballot elections with a "card check" petition drive for workers confronted with the choice of joining a union.

A few months ago, the bill's primary sponsor, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), said that he is considering dropping the card check portion of the bill. I've been keeping a close eye on this story and I don't believe Harkin has amendeded his bill. Yesterday I had the opportunity to discuss this subject with a Republican friend in Washington, and although he couldn't say for sure, he shares my opinion on the current status of card check.

Government-forced arbitration and the potential for a new unionization drive to be utilized as a tool to bail out failing union pensions are a couple of more reasons why EFCA is bad for business, bad for workers.

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Report from the bloggers' conference call about EFCA with Rep. Tom Price
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Report from the bloggers' conference call about card check
Former union organizer talks about card check
Minority business groups coming out against card check
Sen. Mitch McConnell on card check
Financially ailing AFL-CIO funding push for Obama's health care plan
AFL-CIO pension funds group sign $500 million letter of committment on Olympic housing project
Nonsense from a South Dakota AFL-CIO official about card check
"Creative accounting" creates problems for AFL-CIO
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Report from the bloggers' conference call with Rep. John Kline talking about EFCA
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Employee "free choice" may drive economic uncertainty

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